From tear-jerkers to mic-drops, NPR's music critics share the 2025 lyrics that made them laugh, cry and hit replay.

Lyrics of successful songs in the United States have become simpler and more negative over recent decades, according to a ...

To understand the role of storytelling in contemporary pop music, researchers at UC Berkeley created a machine learning ...

Researchers found that lyrics in each of five popular music genres were becoming more repetitive and charged with negative emotions. Desi Mendoza via Wikimedia Commons In recent years, the growing ...

Swift did release at least one “Taylor’s Version” Reputation track: “Look What You Made Me Do,” which appeared in a May 2025 ...

Though music is proven to speak to all of us, according to experts, there are two different types of listeners: those who ...

Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" presents like a carefree drinking song, but the lyrics tell a more serious story that country fans know very well. "Tipsy" (as it's often called) opens with acoustic ...

The “six-seven” shrug—so viral that it has been tapped as the 2025 Word of the Year by Dictionary.com—is the latest of the unending stream of nonsensical jokes, rituals, and competitions that spread ...

Days of festive sing-alongs may be over owing to fears certain lines from popular tunes may upset staff in pubs ...

From Adele, The Beatles, Selena Gomez, Jimi Hendrix and Bon Jovi, these artists couldn't escape from having one of their song's lyrics mistaken by fans. By Carly Thomas Associate Editor It’s not ...

Frank Sinatra dismissed modern music and David Bowie answered by transforming that criticism into a hit song with lasting ...